Fishing-tool.



B. J. LONG L J. I1 KEITH.

FISHING TOOL.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 27, 1911.

Patented Jan. 16, 1912 ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

BENTON J'. LONG AND JOHN I. KEITH, FINLEY, NORTH DAKOTA.

FISHING-Toor..

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, BENTON J. LONG and JOHN I. KETTH, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Finley, in the county of Steele and State of North Dakota, have invented a new and Improved Fishing-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. l

Our invention relates to a new and improved form of guide for fishing tools, more particularly adapted for use in finding the lost drill in well-boring operations, or for tapping the end of lost piping.

An object of our invention is to provide a simple and readily constructed tool, which will encompass the Alost drilling tool, and will guide the same into a receiving socket, or will guide a taper tap into the end of a lost pipe. f We attain the above-Outlined objects by `disposing a funnel-shaped member having a spiral-shaped lower edge to the end of the drilling rod. At the apeX of t-he funnelshaped member is disposed an internallythreaded socket to engage the threaded shank of the lost tool or taper tap.

With the above and other objects in view, as will more fully appear hereinafter, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and 'more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures, and in which* l Figure l is a side elevation of a preferred embodiment of our invent-ion in position ready to telescope a lost drilling tool; and Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, certain parts shown in section and showing the lishing tool engaging the drilling tool.

Descrlbed more in detail, we have shown a lost drilling tool A disposed at the bottom of the drilled well B, in which is shown a guide Vrod C, to which is screw-threadeda square shank 3, from eachl of the sides of which extends an outwardly and down.-

wardly-curved plate 4, each of which-plates is slightly longer than the preceding plate moving clockwise about the' shank 3. To the lower end of'each plate 4 is a spiral-shapedr Specification of Letters Patent.

-scription or shown in the edge plate 5, one endof which attached \t'o the shortestof the plates 4, and the other `end of which is fastened to the longest of the plates 4. This edge plate 5 is attached to the several plates 4 by means of rivets 6. It will be seen that by this construction the rotation of the rod C will cause the lower end of the guide to work on the corkscrew principle, to engage about the upper end of the lost boring tool A, and due to the funnel-shaped construction formed bythe plates 4, this lost tool will be tilted to an erect position as Patented Jan. 16, 41912. Application filed June 27, 1911. Serial No. 635,545.

shown in Fig. 2 and guided toward the socket 7 formed by the internally-threaded sleeve 8,

which sleeve is in screw-threaded engagement.

with a screw-threaded stud 9 depending from the lower end of the shank 3 and at the apex of the funnel formed by the plates 4. It will be seen that rotating the guide rod C will not only cause the lost fishing tool A to assume an erectl position, but will bring it into alinement with and will insert the same into the socket v7, after which the lost tool maybe withdrawn from the well, reinserted in its proper drilling rod, and the operation of drilling the well continued. In the case of a lost pipe section, a taper tap may be inserted in the sleeve 8 and the guide will find the lost section'and the tap may be Vthreaded in the bore thereof.

While a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described, it is to be understood that many changes could be made in theabove construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof. It is intended that all matters' contained herein in the above deaccompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used inthe following'claim is intended to cover the full scope of the invention and is not to be given any narrower construction than .the ,prior art demands, relativities of parts are non-essential, except as called for in the claim.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-r 1 Y, i In afishing tool, a socket, a series of plates disposed about said socket and extending from the same,

said plates extending out-` A wardly from said socket,to form a funneland thatmaterials, sizes and shaped member, said plates being of diernames tothis specicatonhin the presence of ent lengths, starting with the shortest plate two subscribing Witnesses. each succeeding plate being longer than the BENTON J. LONG. precedmg plate and a splrally formed plate 5 connecting the ,ends of said plates, thereby JOHN I KEITH' forming a ndingmeans adapted to embrace Witnesses: a lost article. FRANK E. CURRY,

In testimony whereof Wel have signed our J. F. RESTLESE. 

